“Overall, the coaching staff was very nice and sincere,” she said. “I don’t know, something in the back of my mind was telling me this was my school.”

Kecoughtan athletic director Lee Martin said he believes Romero is the Warriors’ first girls basketball player to commit to a Division I school since Tajama Abraham (George Washington) in 1992.

“We’re very excited for her and the school,” Kecoughtan coach Kevin Williams said. “She’s one of those kids who worked herself into being a Division I basketball player. It was a long journey for her, but she accepted the challenge to get better.”

Williams said Romero also had offers from James Madison, Delaware, Hofstra and Old Dominion.

Marshall, a member of Conference USA, is coming off a 16-14 season and under first-year coach Matt Daniel. One of his assistants is Tamisha Augustin, a 2001 Bethel graduate who also coached Romero in AAU.

“It’s always good to have somebody there who cares about you and will have your back,” Romero said of Augustin. “I’ll have that there.”

Romero, the younger sister of University of Virginia football player Daquan Romero, averaged 11.7 points a game last season.